AST Publishing House announced the release of Harald Horf's novel "Atomic Heart. Mission: KHRAZ". The book was released in three formats: a print edition, as well as an electronic and audio version voiced by Vsevolod Kuznetsov exclusively on Yandex Books.
Currently, the print edition can be purchased for 965 – 1345 rubles in various places. The plot of the book unfolds during the events of the game Atomic Heart and immerses readers in the midst of KHRAZ's dictatorship.
This novel is a science fiction thriller with elements of an action movie set in a simultaneously dark and cozy atmosphere of retrofuturism and the Soviet era.
The author expands the Atomic Heart universe, transporting the reader to both an alternative USSR and an alternative America, where Soviet robots caused total unemployment.
In Colorado, the main character of the book, Soviet engineer and intelligence officer Starovoitov, operates. According to the plot, he faces a difficult choice: to save dying humanity or to side with artificial intelligence, which promises promising opportunities.